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a. Trees planted along City property lines will be watered by those property <br />owners adjacent to said trees. <br />1. No one other than City employees or their designee may trim, prune, or <br />remove public trees. <br />9.24.04 Private Trees in New Development Areas <br />Subd. 1. Requirements for a Tree Preservation Plan. Prior to any <br />development, land clearing, filling, or any other land alteration, as described in Subd. 2 of this <br />sub -section, a tree preservation plan shall be submitted to and approved by the City. The <br />developer shall be required to erect suitable protective barriers around all trees to be preserved <br />and these protective structures, where required, shall remain until such time as they are authorized <br />to be removed by the City or issuance of a final Certificate of Occupancy. <br />Subd. 2. Tree Preservation Plan. A tree preservation plan shall be <br />submitted with preliminary plats and/or site plans, drawn to the same scale as the other <br />preliminary plat or site plan submittals. The submitted tree preservation plan must include a <br />buffer and landscape plan for the project. <br />a. Residential and commercial development plans shall be designed to preserve natural <br />vegetation areas as much as possible. Streets, parcels, structures and parking areas shall be <br />laid out to minimize the destruction of wooded areas or outstanding tree specimens. <br />Developers of land are encouraged to designate wooded areas as park reserves. <br />b. The City may require either the clustering of dwellings or alternate locations of dwellings to <br />preserve significant trees during the plat approval process. <br />c. There shall be no movement, clearing, or storage of equipment within a designated tree <br />protection zone. The owner, developer, or agent shall not permit the placement of <br />construction materials, debris, soil deposits, or fill: not cause or permit disposal of waste <br />materials such as paints, oils, solvents, asphalt, concrete, mortar or any other harmful <br />material within the dripline of any protected tree area. <br />Subd. 3. Plan Specifications Content. The content of all tree preservation <br />plans submitted shall, for purposes of City Staff review, include the following: <br />a. Delineation of all areas located within a 100-year flood plain; <br />b. A tree survey overlay on the plat, which locates all trees, identifying both <br />diameter and species. Dead or diseased trees shall be identified on the survey. <br />All tree surveys for subdivisions involving the construction of roads or <br />drainage conveyances shall be performed by an International Society of <br />